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The very wikipedia page you're linking says:

> The term abliteration has been coined for the process of using ablation to uncensor large language models by modifying internal functions to completely eliminate refusal behaviors while preserving the remaining functions of the model. The word is a portmanteau that combines the words ablation and obliteration.

So are you dropping this now?

Except we're talking about a _different_ word, a word that was _coined_ as a portmanteau of the word you're referring to and another word.
The name for it _is_ abliterate. It's a portmanteau of ablate and obliterate.
Re:Zig ELF Linker Improvements Devlog on Saturday May 30, 2026 @04:40PM (#48340405)
> Zig-native immediate-mode

dvui?

Re:Rust–: Rust without the borrow checker on Thursday January 01, 2026 @07:51AM (#46453708)
The borrow checker doesn't decide when things are dropped. It only checks reference uses and doesn't generate any code. This will work exactly the same as long as your program doesn't violate any borrowing rules.
Camping is like.. regulatory capture? Stretching the analogy thin here.
Re:A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size on Thursday October 09, 2025 @03:17PM (#45531880)
But that fine-tuning is done only on those 100-200 good samples. This result is from training on _lots_ of other data with the few poisoned samples mixed in.
Re:Cat Aquariums on Sunday September 14, 2025 @11:45AM (#45240685)
This doesn't really make sense to me. Most cats I've known react to such reflections without ever having seen a laser pointer in their life, for the same reason they react to laser pointers.
Re:Two Slice, a font that's only 2px tall on Sunday September 14, 2025 @06:00AM (#45238742)
Glyph advance or line spacing is not part of the bitmaps.
> I think Sweden was deploying the Drakken (Dragon) and later the Vigen (Lightning).

The names are much less flashy, Draken (The kite, due to the shape) and Viggen (The tufted duck) :P.

Re:There is no memory safety without thread safety on Thursday July 24, 2025 @02:25PM (#44674256)
`f(++i, ++i)` is/was indeed UB, but the example in munificent's comment was `foo(print(1), print(2))` which as far as I know is not even if both `print` calls read/write the same memory.
Re:There is no memory safety without thread safety on Thursday July 24, 2025 @01:54PM (#44673833)
Yes, but that's just a subset of expressions where unspecified sequencing applied. For instance, the example with two `print()` as parameters would have a sequence point (in pre-C++11 terminology) separating any reads/writes inside the `print` due to the function calls. It would never be UB even though the order in which the prints are called is still unspecified.
Re:There is no memory safety without thread safety on Thursday July 24, 2025 @01:34PM (#44673578)
The author is using the term in the way that everyone else understands it. They are not aware of your unusual definition.
Re:There is no memory safety without thread safety on Thursday July 24, 2025 @01:29PM (#44673508)
The evaluation order is _unspecified_, not undefined behaviour.
Re:BB(6) Is Hard (Antihydra) on Thursday July 17, 2025 @09:43AM (#44593333)
Recent developments on BB(6) previously posted here: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8972
Re:Zig, the Ideal C Replacement Or? on Sunday May 11, 2025 @01:02PM (#43955126)
It's really not. Looks like something like JS with almost identical syntax.

Also, the compiler (and what else?) isn't even implemented [1].

[1] https://github.com/profullstack/smashlang/blob/master/src/co...

Re:Zig, the Ideal C Replacement Or? on Sunday May 11, 2025 @08:41AM (#43953399)
> Dynamic Typing: Flexible type system with runtime type checking

Uhm, what does this have to do with C/Zig?

Re:Llama 4 Smells Bad on Thursday April 24, 2025 @04:47AM (#43780533)
Ah, FastML is an extremely overloaded name.
Re:Llama 4 Smells Bad on Thursday April 24, 2025 @03:44AM (#43780183)
It's strange that someone from FastML can be confused about this, unless it's supposed to be a bad joke.
Re:Query Engines: Push vs. Pull (2021) on Thursday April 17, 2025 @06:36AM (#43714993)
I'm not seeing how this is pull in any sense. Calling recv on the channel doesn't cause any result to be computed. The push of the previous operators will cause the compution to continue.

EDIT: Ok, I guess because they are bounded to 1, the spcs will let the pushing computation continue first after the "puller" has read the result, but it's more like pushing with back-pressure.

Re:It's easier than ever to de-censor videos on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @06:00PM (#43698938)
For pixelation you can use another technique invented for astronomy: drizzling [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drizzle_(image_processing)

Re:Crabtime: Zig's Comptime in Rust on Saturday March 22, 2025 @05:45AM (#43444585)
You're probably underestimating what you can do with these.
Re:How to Run DeepSeek R1 671B Locally on a $2000 EPYC Server on Saturday February 01, 2025 @10:01AM (#42898809)
Any that can run 70B at >5 t/s are >$2k as far as I know.
Re:How to Run DeepSeek R1 671B Locally on a $2000 EPYC Server on Saturday February 01, 2025 @09:59AM (#42898785)
I guess it will be a bigger issue the longer it's been since they stopped making them, but most I've heard (including me) haven't had any issue. Crypto rigs don't necessarily break GPUs faster because they care about power consumption and run the cards at a pretty even temperature. What probably breaks first is the fans. You might also have to open the card up and repaste/repad them to keep the cooling under control.
Re:How to Run DeepSeek R1 671B Locally on a $2000 EPYC Server on Saturday February 01, 2025 @09:51AM (#42898721)
I arbitrarily chose $1k as the "cheap" cut-off. Two 3090 is definitely the most bang for the buck if you can fit them.
Re:How to Run DeepSeek R1 671B Locally on a $2000 EPYC Server on Saturday February 01, 2025 @07:46AM (#42897918)
That's 1.2 t/s for the 14B Qwen finetune, not the real R1. Unless you go with the GPU with the extra cost, but hardly anyone but Jeff Geerling is going to run a dedicated GPU on a Pi.
Re:How to Run DeepSeek R1 671B Locally on a $2000 EPYC Server on Saturday February 01, 2025 @07:42AM (#42897896)
Your best bet for 33B is already having a computer and buying a used RTX 3090 for <$1k. I don't think there's currently any cheap options for 70B that would give you >5. High memory bandwidth is just too expensive. Strix Halo might give you >5 once it comes out, but will probably be significantly more than $1k for 64 GB RAM.
So yes, it's a limitation of their own API at the moment, not a model limitation.
R1 is trained for a context length of 128K. Where are you getting 8K/32K? The model doesn't distinguish "thinking" tokens and "output" tokens, so this must be some specific API limitations.

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